Trouser-hanger



(No Model.)

J. G. MACDONALD.

TROUSERS HANGER.

3 Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

lobldiiimk UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

J OHN OAULD MACDONALD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TROUSER-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,058, dated October19, 1886.

Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial No. 177,568.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CAULD MacDon- ALD, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Trouser -Hangers; and I do hereby declare the sameto be described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective View, Fig. 2a top View, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and Figs. at and 5 opposite endViews, of a trouser-hanger of my invention, the nature of which is dulydefined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 6 is a View of thehanger as applied to trousers.

The article is for the purpose of suspending and supporting trousers, inorder either for keeping such in proper order or for exhibiting thegarment in a tailors shop or a window thereof, as occasion may require.

As represented, the hanger is made of a single piece of wire bent inmanner and hooked at its ends about itself near its middle or springportion or elastic eye, as represented in the drawingsthat is to say, atits middle the wire is bent around in a circular spiral, as shown at a,to form in the article an elastic eye, A. The two half portions of wire,at a short dis tance from the eye, are parallel, or about so, as shownat b b, after which they are bent at right angles, so as to extend inopposite directions as branches from the eye. Next each at a properdistance from the said angular bend is bent downward at a right angle,as shown at 0. Next they are bent in the arched or bow forms, as shownin Figs. 2, 3, and r at e and f. Finally they are bent at a right angletoward the eye, and are hooked, as shown at g g, or bent about the nextadjacent part I) b of the wire.

(X0 model.)

In using the hanger, the trousers being buttoned on the front, it is tobe inserted over the mouth of the garment, and the two frontsuspendenbuttons are to be buttoned into the parts i i of the frontarch, c. The back of the garment is next to be folded at the middlethereof, and the two back suspender-buttons are to be buttoned intoparts 7; k of the arch f. The elastic eye answers to support the hangerupon a nail or hook. The elastic eye also enables the article to be bentor sprung at its middle to fit it to trousers differing in size, asoccasion may require.

1 do not claim a trouser-hanger consisting ofau upper curved rodprovided with loops at its ends, an oppositclycurved rod arranged.between and secured at its ends to the said upper curved rod, and atransverse brace-rod serving to keep the two apart, such upper rodhaving sliding hooks applied to it, all being as shown in the UnitedStates Patent No. 230,513, for my article is constructed of a sinseveralpieces, as set forth in such patent.

I claim The improved trouser-hanger, substantially as described,composed of a piece of wire bent at its middle to form an eye andextended in opposite directions therefrom to form branches, and havingeach oi'such branches bent or arched to enable one of them to button orcatch upon the front suspender-lmttons, and the other to button or catchupon the rear suspender-buttons of the garment o1- trousers, all beingessentially as represented.

J OHY OAULD MACDONALD.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, ERNns'r B. PRATT.

gle piece of wire bent as described, instead of

